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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Will E-Books Kill The Bookstores In India?

Electronic books
or e-books are fast acquiring the market share of book readers. With
innovative and affordable e-book readers, it has now become very easy
to purchase and read books in electronic form.

The natural question that arises is would this shift
towards e-book kill the bookstores in India just like it did in US
and UK? There is no second opinion about the fact that e-books would
be the norm in future. We cannot postpone the e-books revolution for
very long in India. Perhaps within next few years e-books would
dominate Indian markets and e-commerce segment.

This has necessitated a strategy making on the part
of traditional print based books publishers and distributors. They
cannot close their eyes towards this apparent and significant change.
In fact, they must already start taking interest in the concept of
e-books.

Whether e-books would kill traditional print based
books/bookstores or not is a question that can be postponed for few
years. But what cannot be postponed is formulation of an effective
strategy in this regard that is in compliance with Indian laws.